Little Indiscretions

A Novel

Baker & TaylorWhen celebrity pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the summer mansion of wealthy art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects int he crime, especially when it turns out that Nestor had a talent for unearthing dark secrets and was threatening to reveal some of them. Winner of the 1998 Planeta Prize. 50,000 first printing.

Blackwell North AmerBusiness is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he's invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects. But who could have it in for a harmless cook?The answer, it turns out, is just about everyone who happens to be staying in the house. Nestor, while quietly stirring his sauces and whisking his egg whites, had decided to publish a compendium of gastronomic secrets that revealed, along with the culinary tricks of his trade, more than a few damning details of the hosts' and houseguests' private lives. To what lengths would they go to ensure that Nestor maintained a more permanent sense of discretion?

Baker & TaylorWhen pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the mansion of art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime when it turns out that Nestor was threatening to reveal some dark secrets.